Muppet Totem and the Threadless-Cakes 2012
Yummy! Threadless hat die Teilnehmer des diesjährigen Threadcakes-Contest zusammen, in dem Leute nach Motiven der Designershirts Kuchen backen. Obiger Muppet-Totem sieht schonmal super aus, es gibt aber noch eine ganze Reihe weiterer lecker Designerkuchenshirts. Von Wired:
It all started with Cardinal’s Threadless fan blog (now defunct). Back in 2007, he was writing about new shirts, designers, and crowdsourcing and became friends with the social media team at the Chicago-based company. Then one late night, he came up with “this crazy idea to create a Threadless-themed cake-baking competition.” He asked his readers to send in cake photos, not knowing whether or not they’d take the challenge.
Bake they did. The first year generated over a hundred entries, competing for a mere $100 in prizes. The competition was featured on Digg (Remember when “Digging” was a thing!?) and received 45,000 visits in one day. The attention caught Cardinal by surprise. All of a sudden his email inbox was jammed with cake photos. “I looked through 900 pictures of cake and decided I wasn’t doing that again.” He named a winner, but had no plans to continue. But Threadless wanted another helping, and reached out to Cardinal, asking him to rerun the competition.
Threadless Shirts as animated GIFs
Threadless hält grade einen Animated GIF-Contest ab und die Arbeiten sind stellenweise sehr schick. Die Kommunisten-Party oben ist derzeit mein Favorite, aber ich hab’ mir noch lange nicht alles angeschaut (unten auf die Pagination klicken und durch die Comments scrollen). Sweet! (via Eayz)
Literal priced Threadless-Shirts for Unicef
(Vimeo Direktshirts, via MeFi)
Schöne Aktion von Threadless und Unicef, die Shirts zu dem Preis verkaufen, der dem tatsächlichen Preis des abgebildeten Motivs entspricht. Das Shirt rechts zeigt einen Frachtflug von Copenhagen nach Nairobi und kostet genauso viel wie der, nämlich 300.000 Dollar.
Buy Good Shirts at Threadless, do good. The design on each shirt symbolizes the type of aid UNICEF is delivering in the Horn of Africa.
$300,000 is the cost of a charter flight to transport vital aid from the UNICEF supply warehouse in Copenhagen to Nairobi, Kenya. T-shirts illustrated by Christine and Justin Gignac. 100% of the purchase price goes to the U.S. Fund for UNICEF to support lifesaving relief efforts for children in the Horn of Africa.
